The idea was to see all three Triangle football teams recreate some rare history by winning home games on the same Saturday. Only in 1994 had Duke, UNC and N.C. State all claimed home wins on the same day against conference opponents.
North Carolina held up its end of the bargain with an impressive 48-20 dismantling of Georgia Tech. Duke and N.C. State, facing much more formidable opponents, took their decisions to the final seconds before losing to Virginia Tech (24-21) and Florida State (24-20), respectively.
The outcomes made for celebratory, if not uneasy, times in Chapel Hill, where the tailgating crowd began staking claim to parking spaces just as the sun began to rise over the Smith Center in the Bowles parking lot.